A Rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak

A little bit of Friday culture

I can't praise a Spurs player easily, but have to after Danny Rose's goal last night

Spurs won 5-0 in the Europa League last night and look like they are building a very good team, even if Willian decides to go to Chelsea for Champions League football (or money, you decide). Danny Rose scored a really good goal (check it out on YouTube here), and it made me think about a goal he scored in the north London derby a few years back.

Cracking technique - and something that every young kid dreams of. take it away Danny...

 

*see how I enticed you with the promise of culture? And instead you just got another great goal. It has nothing to do with me losing interest in the literature part of it at all...I promise.

Gordon Strachan tells it like it is

He's been dealt a tough hand in life (I'll let you make an assumptions you want!), but Gordon Strachan is a quick-witted, funny and brutally honest man.

He admitted that Scotland's 3-2 defeat to England was "a huge opportunity missed," and that they could have been heroes in 40 years time had they won.

It reminded me of a quote of his back when he was with Southampton...

Reporter: Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?

Strachan: No, I’m just going to crumble like a wreck. I’ll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump of a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.


Ask a stupid question, Gordon will make you feel stupid. Wish there were more like him.

Stupid quotes

"Sporting Lisbon in their green and white hoops, looking like a team of zebras." 
                                                                           - Commentator Peter Jones proves to be an idiot 

Quotes

So I stole this from Football365, but I am childish, so had to re-post here. Maybe it's that time I spent abroad, or just the way my mind works!

"Hopefully there will be a happy ending for everyone by him staying at Liverpool" - Lucas Leiva conjures up an unpleasant image of Luis Suarez.

Quotes

Two talents that we never really got to see the best of.

"I once said Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number and he asked me: "What's an IQ?" - George Best on Paul Gascoigne

Geezer of the Day

He's not done anything that special today, but how can he not be our Geezer today after I found this quote...

"The day I was born, God laid eyes on me and said: 'He's the man.'"

The greatest finisher I can remember. Ladies and Gentlemen, Romario.

Quotes

Not sure if it's the hair, the quote or that it looks like this pic is from the 1986 Panini sticker album, but had to post.

‘Whoever invented football should be worshipped as a God.’ - Hugo Sanchez

Is Di Vaio worse than Inzaghi?

“Since I’ve known Di Vaio, he does the same thing,” said Thierry Henry. “He will be offsides 15 times and once you think he’s [offsides again] that’s when he scores. That’s the typical Italian center forward."